Sue and Lee's Vegetable Allotment pages, detailing all that we've been doing on our allotments, from clearing the 8' tall weeds that they were covered in when we started with our first plot in October 2006, through to where we are today, with 2 neighbouring full sized productive organic vegetable growing plots, 2 apiaries and 6 Beehives!!

FYI

Clicking on any of the pictures will open them at full size in the browser window, which means you will have to use the 'back' button to return to the main pages, whereas clicking to the left or right of any picture will open them in a new window, if you fancy a closer look at any of the piccies we've posted! We've included a Google Earth satelite picture of our plots and this years planting plan at the bottom of the page, next to each other. If you choose the Earth view on the satelite image you can rotate the image until it is lined up with the planting plan, then use the arrows in the plan to scroll from Plot 2 to Plot 1.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Plot 1 Update 17th June 2007

Well, this brings us up to date with al our latest piccies of our plots, I hope you enjoy looking at them!

Another look at the sweetcorn minipop) and pumpkin / squash in the foreground, with the brassica bed behind, to the left just behind the pond can be seen one of our 2 Jerusalem Fartichoke beds, behind which are leeks, onions from seed and pasnips in the same bed, then the onion / garlic bed at the left far end! A bit of a closer view of the parsnip / onion / carrot bed.

To the left ot the wooden central path at the front are spring onions, with banana shallots behind, and then parsnips behind that!

To the right of the path are the onions from seed at the front with more parsnips behind! We've been fortunate to have had good germination with the parsnips and have almost 100 growing now! Another piccy of our overwintering onions, these are going to be pulled today, along with the garlic in the next bed! Another look at the courgette plants, grown a lot since the last piccy was taken, only a week ago!And finally, a piccy of the largest of our cabbages, already hearting up!

Cant wait to be able to harvest fresh cabbage, lots of coleslaw this summer methinks!

Well, thanks very much for looking at our piccies!I'm hoping to get a few more today, along with harvesting some more crops, and of course doing some more weeding!!

Hope your fruit and veg is growing well and that you'll join us again to see the new piccies and the harvests that we acchieve!

2 comments:

Lol, thanks for the lovely comment Nat! Not sure if you are 100% right in saying how its supposed to be done, as its our first year GYOing, and compared with some of the other plots on our site, we aint doing as well as them, but we are quite happy with our progress so far! Still remains to be seen if we break even with crops to money spent this year, but no matter what we are definitely hooked on GYOing!

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I'm a 40 something yr old woman, married to a great guy, Lee, for the past 12 years, am a practicing Pagan Witch, and enjoy life to its fullest extent! Currently we are both enjoying growing our own veg (on our 2 organic allotments), looking after our 6 colonies of apis melifora (honey bee) and practicing my photography (on my ebay special Canon EOS10D) I work as a store manager for a finance provider, and enjoy reading, writing, cooking, camping and many other things besides! We are both passionate dog owners with many years of experience of providing a loving friendly home to our furbabies.

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Satelite picture of our Plots - Google Earth

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Switch to Earth view and drag the north marker round to the 4 'o'clock position to orientate them in the same way as the planting plans! Please note, the satelite picture is from last year, when we had the brassicas where the sweetcorn and squashes are this year!

Planting Plan 2010

Use the arrows to switch between Plots 2 (the left hand plot) and Plot 1 (the right hand plot)